Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, tabatières en or émaillé en plein et autres ... tableaux, miniatures & dessins, composant la collection de feu M. E. Collot et dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... les vendredi 4 et samedi 5 avril 1873 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...
Author: Calendar of Manuscripts in Paris Archives and Libraries Relating to the History of the Mississippi Valley to 1803
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of ArchaeologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Alfred Jarry
Author: Keith BeaumontPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 398
Book Description
Evolution in the Past
Author: Henry Robert KnipePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Pataphysician's Library
Author: Ben FisherPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853239260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Pataphysician’s Library is a study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, perhaps surprisingly, to be one of the more durable fin-de-siècle authors. The originality of this study lies in its use of the enigmatic list of books termed the livres pairs, which appears in Jarry’s 1898 novel Gestes et Opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien, his best-known prose work. The greatest interest of the livres pairs lies in a group of works by Jarry’s friends and contemporaries, primarily Leon Bloy, Georges Darien, Gustave Kahn, Catulle Mendes, Josephin Madan, Rachilde, and Henri de Regnier. Several of these authors feature as the lords of islands visited by the pataphysician Dr Faustroll in his curious voyage around Paris. In conjunction with Jarry’s own works, the contemporary livres pairs serve to illustrate the vibrant and experimental atmosphere in which these authors worked.
Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, faïences italiennes et de Delf ... composant la collection de feu M. C*** et dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... le mardi 4 mars 1873 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...
Author: Symbolist Theater
Author: Frantisek DeakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Frantisek Deak's Symbolist Theater is a welcome and fundamental contribution to the re-evaluation of European avant-garde theatre. Deak's analysis of symbolist theatre rebuts earlier approaches which concluded, as Haskell Block did in the 1969 Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama, that attempts to stage symbolist plays were "doomed to failure," because of "an inherent opposition between symbolist premises and the demands of sustained theatrical elaboration." These earlier critiques analyzed symbolist theatre from the viewpoint of literary criticism, but Deak's book employs different methods by taking "as a premise that theater exists in performance" (7). Symbolist Theater leans conceptually on Czech structuralists and Russian formalists as it makes "theater criticism based on the reconstruction of the semantic gesture of the production;" criticism which "takes the text into consideration as one aspect of the structure" (10), and sees the symbolist theatre project as an effort to re-define the "signifying process" in general (132). Despite its title, however, Symbolist Theater is not an analysis of the whole symbolist theatre movement, but instead a focus on French symbolist theatre alone".
Ubu's Almanac
Author: Alfred JarryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ubu (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Alfred Jarry
Author: Alastair BrotchiePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262528436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical. When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris—but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde. Even so, most people today tend to think of Alfred Jarry only as the author of the play Ubu Roi, and of his life as a string of outlandish “ubuesque” anecdotes, often recounted with wild inaccuracy. In this first full-length critical biography of Jarry in English, Alastair Brotchie reconstructs the life of a man intent on inventing (and destroying) himself, not to mention his world, and the “philosophy” that defined their relation. Brotchie alternates chapters of biographical narrative with chapters that connect themes, obsessions, and undercurrents that relate to the life. The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented: Jarry's assumption of the “ubuesque,” his inversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backward, from cheese to soup), his exploits with gun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry's purposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and his thought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day.